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History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 03 by Thomas Carlyle
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"Verbum Diaboli Manet In Episcopis, The Devil's Word
sticks fast in the Bishops"?

We must now take leave of Margraf George and his fine procedures
in that crisis of World-History. He had got Jugerndorf, which
became important for his Family and others: but what was that to
the Promethean conquests (such we may call them) which he had the
honor to assist in making for his Family, and for his Country, and
for all men;--very unconscious he of "bringing fire from Heaven,"
good modest simple man! So far as I can gather, there lived, in
that day, few truer specimens of the Honest Man. A rugged,
rough-hewn, rather blunt-nosed physiognomy: cheek-bones high,
cheeks somewhat bagged and wrinkly; eyes with a due shade of
anxiety and sadness in them; affectionate simplicity,
faithfulness, intelligence, veracity looking out of every feature
of him. Wears plentiful white beard short-cut, plentiful
gold-chains, ruffs, ermines;--a hat not to be approved of, in
comparison with brother Casimir's; miserable inverted-colander of
a hat; hanging at an angle of forty-five degrees; with band of
pearls round the top not the bottom of it; insecure upon the fine
head of George, and by no means to its embellishment.

One of his Daughters he married to the Duke of Liegnitz, a new
link in that connection. He left one Boy, George Friedrich;
who came under ALCIBIADES, his Cousin of Baireuth's tutelage;
and suffered much by that connection, or indeed chiefly by his own
conspicuously Protestant turn, to punish which, the Alcibiades
connection was taken as a pretext. In riper years, George
Friedrich got his calamities brought well under; and lived to
do good work, Protestant and other, in the world. To which we